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Miguel Afonso Caetano<p>"If you stumbled across Terence Broad’s AI-generated artwork (un)stable equilibrium on YouTube, you might assume he’d trained a model on the works of the painter Mark Rothko — the earlier, lighter pieces, before his vision became darker and suffused with doom. Like early-period Rothko, Broad’s AI-generated images consist of simple fields of pure color, but they’re morphing, continuously changing form and hue.</p><p>But Broad didn’t train his AI on Rothko; he didn’t train it on any data at all. By hacking a neural network, and locking elements of it into a recursive loop, he was able to induce this AI into producing images without any training data at all — no inputs, no influences. Depending on your perspective, Broad’s art is either a pioneering display of pure artificial creativity, a look into the very soul of AI, or a clever but meaningless electronic by-product, closer to guitar feedback than music. In any case, his work points the way toward a more creative and ethical use of generative AI beyond the large-scale manufacture of derivative slop now oozing through our visual culture.</p><p>Broad has deep reservations about the ethics of training generative AI on other people’s work, but his main inspiration for (un)stable equilibrium wasn’t philosophical; it was a crappy job."</p><p><a href="https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/688576/feed-ai-nothing" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theverge.com/ai-artificial-int</span><span class="invisible">elligence/688576/feed-ai-nothing</span></a></p><p><a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/GenerativeAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GenerativeAI</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/GeneratedImages" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GeneratedImages</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/AITraining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AITraining</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Copyright" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Copyright</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/IP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IP</span></a></p>
Miguel Afonso Caetano<p>"Disney and Universal sued a prominent artificial intelligence start-up for copyright infringement on Wednesday, bringing Hollywood belatedly into the increasingly intense battle over generative A.I.</p><p>The movie companies sued Midjourney, an A.I. image generator that has tens of millions of registered users. The 110-page lawsuit contends that Midjourney “helped itself to countless” copyrighted works to train its software, which allows people to create images (and soon videos) that “blatantly incorporate and copy Disney’s and Universal’s famous characters.”</p><p>“Midjourney is the quintessential copyright free-rider and a bottomless pit of plagiarism,” the companies said in the lawsuit, which was filed in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles.<br>Midjourney did not respond to requests for comment.</p><p>A.I. start-ups like Midjourney, which was introduced in 2022, train their software with data scraped from the internet and elsewhere, often without compensating creators. The practice has resulted in lawsuits from authors, artists, record labels and news organizations, among others. (The New York Times has sued OpenAI and its partner, Microsoft, for copyright infringement. OpenAI and Microsoft have denied those claims, saying their actions fall under “fair use.”)"</p><p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/11/business/media/disney-universal-midjourney-ai.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nytimes.com/2025/06/11/busines</span><span class="invisible">s/media/disney-universal-midjourney-ai.html</span></a></p><p><a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/GenerativeAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GenerativeAI</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/GeneratedImages" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GeneratedImages</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Universal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Universal</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Disney" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Disney</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/MidJourney" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MidJourney</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Copyright" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Copyright</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/IP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IP</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Plagiarism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Plagiarism</span></a></p>
Miguel Afonso Caetano<p>"The environmental shadow cast by my digital life is already egregious, and I would need a good reason—pleasure would be sufficient—to engage with a technology that is not only making the physical world worse but is also decidedly optional. (Want to see what your dog would look like as a human? You actually have an imagination for that!) A.I. is frankly gross to me: it launders bias into neutrality; it hallucinates; it can become “poisoned with its own projection of reality.” The more frequently people use ChatGPT, the lonelier, and the more dependent on it, they become. A recent system update made the chatbot so sycophantic that, if a user told it he’d stopped taking his medications and abandoned his family because they were broadcasting suspicious radio signals, ChatGPT would respond with fawning praise for the person’s journey of courageously pursuing his truth. Earlier this week, Mark Zuckerberg suggested, on a podcast, that the average person has only three friends but “has demand” for fifteen, and that A.I. could help. ChatGPT will reify the problems that it purports to solve, and thus make itself essential: encouraging users to rely less and less on inner resources and personal capacity at a time when most of us are already losing the equipment—our will, our instincts, our sense of purchase—with which we handle the task of being alive."</p><p><a href="https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-weekend-essay/my-brain-finally-broke" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">newyorker.com/culture/the-week</span><span class="invisible">end-essay/my-brain-finally-broke</span></a></p><p><a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/GenerativeAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GenerativeAI</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/GeneratedImages" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GeneratedImages</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/ChatGPT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ChatGPT</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Chatbots" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Chatbots</span></a></p>
Miguel Afonso Caetano<p>I'm not sure this kind of tools are legal in the European Union... </p><p>"Fast-forward to today, and millions of artists have deployed two tools born from that Zoom: Glaze and Nightshade, which were developed by Zhao and the University of Chicago’s SAND Lab (an acronym for “security, algorithms, networking, and data”).</p><p>Arguably the most prominent weapons in an artist’s arsenal against nonconsensual AI scraping, Glaze and Nightshade work in similar ways: by adding what the researchers call “barely perceptible” perturbations to an image’s pixels so that machine-learning models cannot read them properly. Glaze, which has been downloaded more than 6 million times since it launched in March 2023, adds what’s effectively a secret cloak to images that prevents AI algorithms from picking up on and copying an artist’s style. Nightshade, which I wrote about when it was released almost exactly a year ago this fall, cranks up the offensive against AI companies by adding an invisible layer of poison to images, which can break AI models; it has been downloaded more than 1.6 million times. </p><p>Thanks to the tools, “I’m able to post my work online,” Ortiz says, “and that’s pretty huge.” For artists like her, being seen online is crucial to getting more work. If they are uncomfortable about ending up in a massive for-profit AI model without compensation, the only option is to delete their work from the internet. That would mean career suicide."</p><p><a href="https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/11/13/1106837/ai-data-posioning-nightshade-glaze-art-university-of-chicago-exploitation/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">technologyreview.com/2024/11/1</span><span class="invisible">3/1106837/ai-data-posioning-nightshade-glaze-art-university-of-chicago-exploitation/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/GenerativeAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GenerativeAI</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/WebScraping" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WebScraping</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/AITraining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AITraining</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/GeneratedImages" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GeneratedImages</span></a></p>
Miguel Afonso Caetano<p>"Sotheby’s recently sold the first artwork made by a humanoid robot using artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms for $1 million, blasting past its estimate of $120,000 to $180,000.</p><p>On November 7, the artwork A.I. God. Portrait of Alan Turing (2024) by the humanoid robot artist Ai-Da sold for $1,084,800 during the auction house’s Digital Art day sale. There were 27 bids for the portrait of mathematician and computer scientist Alan Turing, which was created using Ai-Da Robot’s AI algorithms. The 64-inch by 90-inch mixed media on canvas also had a third-party guarantee.</p><p>“This auction is an important moment for the visual arts, where Ai-Da’s artwork brings focus on artworld and societal changes, as we grapple with the rising age of AI,” U.K.-based art dealer, gallery owner, and robot creator Aidan Meller said in a press statement. “The artwork “AI God” raises questions about agency, as AI gains more power.”"</p><p><a href="https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/artwork-humanoid-robot-ai-da-artificial-intelligence-algorithms-sothebys-alan-turing-1234723391/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">artnews.com/art-news/news/artw</span><span class="invisible">ork-humanoid-robot-ai-da-artificial-intelligence-algorithms-sothebys-alan-turing-1234723391/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/GenerativeAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GenerativeAI</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/GeneratedImages" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GeneratedImages</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Art" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Art</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Algorithms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Algorithms</span></a></p>
Miguel Afonso Caetano<p><a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/GenerativeAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GenerativeAI</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/GeneratedImages" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GeneratedImages</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/GeneratedMuseum" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GeneratedMuseum</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Museums" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Museums</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/ArtHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ArtHistory</span></a>: "We can now in principle create an infinite museum filled with endless AI-generated images that simulate artworks from every period in history for all genres, artistic techniques and media. In fact, reference sites like Midlibrary that contain names of thousands of famous artists, architects, designers, and photographers that AI can confidently simulate are already such museums - but we can scale them up and expand dramatically to fit whole chapters of art history. GenAI is making possible, both theoretically and practically, a new type of universal "museum without walls."</p><p>The question then arises: why would such an endeavor be interesting or valuable? One obvious possibility is to populate this museum with "additional" works by artists who actually existed, attempting to generate pieces that would be as historically probable as possible. This approach could provide insights into the potential evolution of an artist's style or explore "missing" works from certain periods of their career.</p><p>A more intriguing application, however, is to explore alternative possible art histories. We can re-imagine art history (and history of culture in general) as a speculative discipline—similar in spirit to speculative fiction, alternative history, or speculative design."</p><p><a href="https://manovich.net/index.php/projects/from-museum-without-walls-to-genai-museum" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">manovich.net/index.php/project</span><span class="invisible">s/from-museum-without-walls-to-genai-museum</span></a></p>
Miguel Afonso Caetano<p><a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Google" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Google</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Pixel9" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Pixel9</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Photography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Photography</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/GeneratedImages" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GeneratedImages</span></a>: "Google claims the Pixel 9 will not be an unfettered bullshit factory but is thin on substantive assurances. “We design our Generative AI tools to respect the intent of user prompts and that means they may create content that may offend when instructed by the user to do so,” Alex Moriconi, Google communications manager, told The Verge in an email. “That said, it’s not anything goes. We have clear policies and Terms of Service on what kinds of content we allow and don’t allow, and build guardrails to prevent abuse. At times, some prompts can challenge these tools’ guardrails and we remain committed to continually enhancing and refining the safeguards we have in place.” </p><p>The policies are what you would expect — for example, you can’t use Google services to facilitate crimes or incite violence. Some attempted prompts returned the generic error message, “Magic Editor can’t complete this edit. Try typing something else.” (You can see throughout this story, however, several worrisome prompts that did work.) But when it comes down to it, standard-fare content moderation will not save the photograph from its incipient demise as a signal of truth."</p><p><a href="https://www.theverge.com/2024/8/22/24225972/ai-photo-era-what-is-reality-google-pixel-9" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theverge.com/2024/8/22/2422597</span><span class="invisible">2/ai-photo-era-what-is-reality-google-pixel-9</span></a></p>
Artem 🇺🇦<p>Carving generated noise. There are no recognisable features, while there's still something in it.</p><p><a href="https://c.im/tags/Generative" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Generative</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Noise" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Noise</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Art" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Art</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/StableDiffusion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>StableDiffusion</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/GeneratedImages" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GeneratedImages</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/DigitalArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DigitalArt</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/generativeart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>generativeart</span></a></p>
Miguel Afonso Caetano<p><a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/GenerativeAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GenerativeAI</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/LLMs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LLMs</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/AITraining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AITraining</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/GeneratedImages" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GeneratedImages</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Copyright" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Copyright</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/IP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IP</span></a>: "A lot of early AI research was done in an academic setting; the law specifically mentions teaching, scholarship, and research as examples of fair use. As a result, the machine-learning community has traditionally taken a relaxed attitude toward copyright. Early training sets frequently included copyrighted material.</p><p>As academic researchers took jobs in the burgeoning commercial AI sector, many assumed they would continue to enjoy wide latitude to train on copyrighted material. Some feel blindsided by copyright holders’ demands for cash.</p><p>“We all learn for free,” Daniel Jeffries wrote in his tweet summing up the view of many in the AI community. “We learn from the world around us and so do machines.”</p><p>The argument seems to be that if it’s legal for a human being to learn from one copyrighted book, it must also be legal for a large language model to learn from a million copyrighted books—even if the training process requires making copies of the books.</p><p>As MP3.com and Texaco learned, this isn't always true. A use that’s fair at a small scale can be unfair when it’s scaled up and commercialized.</p><p>But AI advocates like Jeffries are right that sometimes it is true. There are cases where courts have held that bulk technological uses of copyrighted works are fair use. The most important example is almost certainly the Google Books case."</p><p><a href="https://www.understandingai.org/p/the-ai-community-needs-to-take-copyright" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">understandingai.org/p/the-ai-c</span><span class="invisible">ommunity-needs-to-take-copyright</span></a></p>
Miguel Afonso Caetano<p><a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/India" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>India</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Disinformation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Disinformation</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Propaganda" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Propaganda</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/GeneratedImages" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GeneratedImages</span></a>: "Karunanidhi has been dead since 2018.</p><p>This was the third time, in the past six months, that the iconic leader of the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) party was resurrected using artificial intelligence (AI) for such public events.</p><p>“When the COVID pandemic ravaged the world, our Chief Minister ran in the direction of panicked voices of people,” Karunanidhi said. “The nation knows the way you fought to save the lives of people, and so do I.”</p><p>Senthil Nayagam, founder of Muonium, the AI media tech firm that made the deepfake Karunanidhi video, told Al Jazeera that “there is a market opening up [for such deepfakes]…. You can attribute some statements to a particular person and that kind of gives more value to it”.</p><p>AI Karunanidhi’s first public appearance was at a local media event last year in September, which was followed up by another for a campaign by his party members. The resurrected leader often felicitates party workers and specifically praises the leadership of his son MK Stalin — with the aim of boosting his popularity."</p><p><a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2024/2/12/how-ai-is-used-to-resurrect-dead-indian-politicians-as-elections-loom" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">aljazeera.com/economy/2024/2/1</span><span class="invisible">2/how-ai-is-used-to-resurrect-dead-indian-politicians-as-elections-loom</span></a></p>
Miguel Afonso Caetano<p><a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/GenerativeAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GenerativeAI</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/GeneratedImages" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GeneratedImages</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Journalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Journalism</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Media" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Media</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/News" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>News</span></a>: "The AI authors' writing often sounds like it was written by an alien; one Ortiz article, for instance, warns that volleyball "can be a little tricky to get into, especially without an actual ball to practice with."</p><p>According to a second person involved in the creation of the Sports Illustrated content who also asked to be kept anonymous, that's because it's not just the authors' headshots that are AI-generated. At least some of the articles themselves, they said, were churned out using AI as well.</p><p>"The content is absolutely AI-generated," the second source said, "no matter how much they say that it's not."</p><p>After we reached out with questions to the magazine's publisher, The Arena Group, all the AI-generated authors disappeared from Sports Illustrated's site without explanation."</p><p><a href="https://futurism.com/sports-illustrated-ai-generated-writers" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">futurism.com/sports-illustrate</span><span class="invisible">d-ai-generated-writers</span></a></p>
Miguel Afonso Caetano<p><a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/UK" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UK</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/GenerativeAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GenerativeAI</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/GeneratedImages" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GeneratedImages</span></a>: "Children in British schools are using artificial intelligence (AI) to make indecent images of other children, a group of experts on child abuse and technology has warned.</p><p>They said that a number of schools were reporting for the first time that pupils were using AI-generating technology to create images of children that legally constituted child sexual abuse material.</p><p>Emma Hardy, UK Safer Internet Centre (UKSIC) director, said the pictures were “terrifyingly” realistic.</p><p>“The quality of the images that we’re seeing is comparable to professional photos taken annually of children in schools up and down the country,” said Hardy, who is also the Internet Watch Foundation communications director.</p><p>“The photo-realistic nature of AI-generated imagery of children means sometimes the children we see are recognisable as victims of previous sexual abuse."</p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2023/nov/27/uk-school-pupils-using-ai-create-indecent-sexual-abuse-images-of-other-children" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/global-develop</span><span class="invisible">ment/2023/nov/27/uk-school-pupils-using-ai-create-indecent-sexual-abuse-images-of-other-children</span></a></p>
Miguel Afonso Caetano<p><a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/GenerativeAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GenerativeAI</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/GeneratedImages" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GeneratedImages</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Adobe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Adobe</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Disinformation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Disinformation</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Propaganda" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Propaganda</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Israel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Israel</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Palestine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Palestine</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Hamas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Hamas</span></a>: "Adobe is selling artificially generated, realistic images of the Israel-Hamas war which have been used across the internet without any indication they are fake.</p><p>As part of the company’s embrace of generative artificial intelligence (AI), Adobe allows people to upload and sell AI images as part of its stock image subscription service, Adobe Stock. Adobe requires submitters to disclose whether they were generated with AI and clearly marks the image within its platform as “generated with AI”. Beyond this requirement, the guidelines for submission are the same as any other image, including prohibiting illegal or infringing content.</p><p>People searching Adobe Stock are shown a blend of real and AI-generated images. Like “real” stock images, some are clearly staged, whereas others can seem like authentic, unstaged photography." </p><p><a href="https://www.crikey.com.au/2023/11/01/israel-gaza-adobe-artificial-intelligence-images-fake-news/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">crikey.com.au/2023/11/01/israe</span><span class="invisible">l-gaza-adobe-artificial-intelligence-images-fake-news/</span></a></p>
Miguel Afonso Caetano<p><a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/GenerativeAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GenerativeAI</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/GeneratedImages" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GeneratedImages</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/4chan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>4chan</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/ContentModeration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ContentModeration</span></a>: "4chan users are coordinating a posting campaign where they use Bing’s AI text-to-image generator to create racist images that they can then post across the internet. The news shows how users are able to manipulate free to access, easy to use AI tools to quickly flood the internet with racist garbage, even when those tools are allegedly strictly moderated.</p><p>“We’re making propaganda for fun. Join us, it’s comfy,” the 4chan thread instructs. “MAKE, EDIT, SHARE.”</p><p>A visual guide hosted on Imgur that’s linked in that post instructs users to use AI image generators, edit them to add captions that make them seem like political campaigns, and post them to social media sites, specifically Telegram, Twitter, and Instagram. 404 Media has also seen these images shared on a TikTok account that has since been removed."</p><p><a href="https://www.404media.co/4chan-uses-bing-to-flood-the-internet-with-racist-images/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">404media.co/4chan-uses-bing-to</span><span class="invisible">-flood-the-internet-with-racist-images/</span></a></p>